Police Power

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Earlier this week, planner M. Nolan Gray, author of the new book, “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It” (Island Press 2022) joined our Land Use class at the University of Hawaii Law School to talk

“But we had to eat.”

So begins the Washington Supreme Court’s opinion in Washington Food Industry Ass’n v. City of Seattle, No. 99771-3 (Feb. 9, 2023), wherein the court held that a takings challenge to Seattle’s ordinance requiring Co-19 combat pay for food delivery workers may proceed. 

There’s a lot in the opinion about

40th ALI-CLE

We were eagerly anticipating 40th American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference. The 2022 Conference in Scottsdale was one of the first meetings where everyone was back in-person (and was a smashing success), but that conference was early in the game so not everyone could or would attend. But in the past

LUI

Land users: come join us online for the 36th Annual Land Use Institute. Yes, the venerable program is back again, with the usual line up of dirt law experts covering all you need to know and bringing you up to speed on the latest. Here’s the description of the program:

This Annual Land Use Institute

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Join our Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues Jon Houghton, Daniel Woislaw, Kady Valois, and Sam Spiegelman (moderating) tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET for a free webinar, “Emerging Issues in Property Rights.”

Here’s the agenda:

Protecting private property rights has been at the heart of PLF’s

You remember, don’t you? In the early days of the Co-19 epidemic, government and public health authorities were scrambling to do something … sometimes anything! … to respond.

Dare County, North Carolina might have been one of those local governments that went maybe just a bit too far in the precaution vs effectiveness departments:

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Here’s your chance to spend some time with the author of one of the hottest land use and public policy books out there, Nolan Gray.

RSVP now (admission free, but space is limited) to join our Land Use class when we welcome Mr. Gray to respond to the question in the title of this post.

If your first reaction to the Texas Court of Appeals (First District)’s decision in City of Houston v. The Commons of Lake Houston, Ltd., No. 01-21-00369-DV (Jan. 12, 2023) is scratching your head, then please come join us in bewilderment.

After all, the court held that a takings claim failed because the city

We really want you there…

One (nearly) last reminder that there’s still time to register for your space at the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 1-4, 2023, in Austin. In the past several years, we have sold out due to the conference room capacity and the conference hotel block.

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Here at inversecondemnation.com, we were all set to call it a week and take a break from posting until Monday.

But SCOTUS had other ideas.

In this Order issued today, it agreed to review Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166, a case and an issue we’ve been following closely.

The Questions